User talk:Macouno

December 2009
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added such as to the page Stephen King do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Fred the Oyster (talk) 23:33, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Michael Connelly. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Fred the Oyster (talk) 23:34, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Ok... I'm new to Wikipedia, thought I was being helpfull. My bad, I will no longer post links. I apologise, Or even better... let me remove all this... check the pages I edited, make sure it's all removed (I only did a few).


 * No problem, your links were already removed :). Wikipedia is focusing on the content and external links are really auxiliary and may be deleted any time, especially those which can be related to commercial goals - many editors are really sensitive to that, and to be honest, you almost got your account blocked for this reason. Cheers. Materialscientist (talk) 00:04, 10 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Yes I noticed that checking just now. Thanks for setting me straight, I do hope I can contribute, because I do come across information that wikipedia can benefit from. I'll be more diligent in future. I appreciate it. Macouno (talk) 00:12, 10 December 2009 (UTC)